140w ago - Following up on his previous release, today PlayStation 3 developer judges has updated the Teensy++ 2.0 NOR flasher NORway for PS3 to version 0.5 with additional updates and their changes outlined below.

Added new programming modes that skip verification for single 4KB blocks: "write", "writeword" and "writewordubm".

Moved verification algorithm to Teensy.

Update: From littlebalup: Hi ladies and gents, As an alternative to WAYgui by Swizzy, here comes my personal simple programs, written in batch and compiled as exe, to easily launch and work with the well known NORway and NANDway python scripts by Judges.

Here a new release of my GUI for NORway/NANway/SPIway: v2.02: Added compatibility with the latest USB serial drivers from PRJC. "Teensy USB Serial" driver now detected as well as the old one. Also means it is working well on Windows 8.1 now.

v2.00: Removed embeded console due to problems with scripts output redirection. Now scripts launched in a separate regular console prompt window. Save screen and Kill process buttons removed as well. Instead, you can copy from console to save screen and use Ctrl+C to kill process if needed.

v1.01: Added Teensy programming feature: can load .hex file by clicking on the teensy picture. Dump file extention changed: was *.x.bin, now is *.bin if only one dump and *_x.bin if multi-dumps.

v1.00: First release

Update #3: New version of NORPatch available from judges: Norpatch v4.60.0

Added OFW 4.60 recognition

Update #4: New version of NORPatch available from judges: Norpatch v4.65.0

Added OFW 4.65 recognition

Update #5: New version of NORPatch available from judges: Norpatch v4.66.0

Added OFW 4.66 recognition

Update #6: New version of NORPatch available from judges: Norpatch v4.70.0

To quote: Here comes my initial release of a NOR flasher soft for the PS3 called "NORway". I know, there are other "WIP" projects, but I got a little impatient, so I've decided to create my own solution. It's a port of "noralizer" by marcan, a pretty good working NOR flasher implementation for another FPGA board.

Anyway, here's the README.txt, which should explain everything: NORway v0.1

This project has been ported for the Teensy++ 2.0 from the original NOR flasher tool ("noralizer" by Hector Martin "marcan" ) that was used to flash AsbestOS onto the demo PS3 at 27C3, and for experimentation.

Dumping takes about 3 minutes. A file "flash.bin" with a size of exactly 16 MB (16.777.216 bytes) has been created in your current directory.

Flashing is rather slow. Writing a complete flash with the "write" command takes about 2 hours. Might be improved in future versions...

IMPORTANT:

Before you flash your PS3 with anything new, make sure that the content of your dump is correct (e.g. compare ros0/ros1 area of your dump against "CORE_OS_PACKAGE.bin" from an actual PS3UPDAT.PUP of your current firmware). And keep your original dump in a safe place. You might need it.

It's tested on Win7 x86, but should also work just fine on any x86 Windows >=XP. Basically it should also work on Linux, but I didn't test. If you're running Linux, you probably know what to do. Serial drivers are not required for Linux.

Unfortunately I couldn't manage to make it work on any x64 version of Windows, because of the Python pyserial module.

Thanks to "marcan" for the original implementation.

-- judges (judges at eEcho.com)

P.S: I've already managed to downgrade my OFW 3.61 to CFW 3.55. There're minor things to rule out, but expect a downgrade tutorial coming soon..
PPS: Thanks to defyboy for the original idea of using a Teensy for flashing!

Dumping now only takes 45 secs instead of over 5 mins! Writing now only takes about 8.5 mins instead of over 2 hours!

[jevin] judges check out http://pastie.org/2527251
[jevin] its modified to support samsung chips
[jevin] it does chip erase twice (a22 low/high)
[jevin] and does single-word, unlocked programming of the entire chip
[jevin] it doesnt support programming ranges because i haven't bothered with partial erases yet
[jevin] 99% untested
[jevin] it executes when not hooked up to my ps3